[Raynor]

In the beginning of the Fellowship, Galadrial mentions that he poured his Malace and Hatred into the ring, thus meaning that if it were destroyed, being the DARK lord, everything that had been evil about him.

In the Silmarillion, it is stated that the dissapearance of Morgoth from Ea doesn't mean that his evil doesn't continue to work - . Although Sauron was the last mythological incarnation of evil, and Barad-dur was destroyed, the evil he dispersed continues to work (I believe it is just dispersed - also because much of that evil comes from Melkor, who almost irreversibly corrupted the Creation).

Alas, you are incorrect. Melkor was inconsevabley((Forgive me for not knowing how to spell it)) more powerfull than Sauron in all around ways.

I disagree; Melkor was once the most powerful creation of Eru - once.

Originally Posted by Notes on motives in the Silmarillion, i, Myths Transformed, HoME X

Sauron was 'greater', effectively, in the Second Age than Morgoth at the end of the First. Why? Because, though he was far smaller by natural stature, he had not yet fallen so low. Eventually he also squandered his power (of being) in the endeavour to gain control of others. But he was not obliged to expend so much of himself. To gain domination over Arda, Morgoth had let most of his being pass into the physical constituents of the Earth – hence all things that were born on Earth and lived on and by it, beasts or plants or incarnate spirits, were liable to be 'stained'. Morgoth at the time of the War of the Jewels had become permanently 'incarnate': for this reason he was afraid, and waged the war almost entirely by means of devices, or of subordinates and dominated creatures.